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the public complained and blamed president clinton, but after a while, his numbers went up and gingrich himself has said that the budget standoff with the single most avoidable mistake as speaker. you can never be sure how these things are going to play. >> the gingrich examp is certainly instructive. was the man of the year for "time" and he plummeted to 16% favorable. that is just a little bit south of donald trump. those are really bad numbers. he never fully recovered from it. this is what the political backdrop is heading into this confrontation because the president's numbers are at the highest point at any point in the last three and a half years going back to lat 2009 during his honeymoon period. he does have a political advantage. make no mistake about it. i think some republicans understand this, but i think the core of republicans in the house what this confrontation. >> is my emails and phone calls are any indication, they are fed up with this. >> they are, but there's no one to make a deal with on the republican side. they're very divided. a lot of reblicans have been aroun
the public complained and blamed president clinton, but after a while, his numbers went up and gingrich himself has said that the budget standoff with the single most avoidable mistake as speaker. you can never be sure how these things are going to play. >> the gingrich examp is certainly instructive. was the man of the year for "time" and he plummeted to 16% favorable. that is just a little bit south of donald trump. those are really bad numbers. he never fully recovered from...
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in a post-clinton aide, there is nothing remarkable about this. newake a look and this, a super pac designed to lure hillary clinton into running for the presidency. james carville is on board. he said it is time for hillary legions to convert their harbor for candidacy into real grassroots organization. so it begins. it did not take long. >> these days, if you want to run for president, you have to start early. i saw these rumblings, why is she not doing anything? she did not take the full six months off. this woman does not take a break. however, every time i underestimate her ambitions, i am wrong. >> she has already waited too long. >> on the one hand, it will make no sense. she will be old, in her 70's. >> nobody said that about right in. -- reagan. >> these people are different from you and me. they operate in a different way, they think in a different way. why would sanford do it? they are just different. >> i am told, once you get the bug, it is like a virus. you cannot get rid of it. >> i know nothing of it. there is no way that jam carvi
in a post-clinton aide, there is nothing remarkable about this. newake a look and this, a super pac designed to lure hillary clinton into running for the presidency. james carville is on board. he said it is time for hillary legions to convert their harbor for candidacy into real grassroots organization. so it begins. it did not take long. >> these days, if you want to run for president, you have to start early. i saw these rumblings, why is she not doing anything? she did not take the...
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they were in the clinton administration as tricks editors of the clinton policy of really creating jobs in the most aggressive way possible. i am not -- i don't know if that works and this era as well. we had an electronic bubble of the time. but this administration has not seemed to be as focused on finding hold the avevees of the operation and perhaps penalizing -- finding a whole new avenues of job creation and perhaps penalizing industries that send jobs abroad. >> he is a very smart guidy with what the election was about. he pretends it was a message about being bipartisan and working together. he understands it was a repudiation of the shift to the left. this is a strong signal of the repositioning. bill daley is the guy who shepherded nafta up through, which is anathema to the union supporters of obama. he publicly opposed financial reform. in 2009, he criticized the administration for its low for a shift. he is a guy who represents exactly the kind of ideological could take that obama understands -- the ideological critique that obama understands it is what harm to them in novem
they were in the clinton administration as tricks editors of the clinton policy of really creating jobs in the most aggressive way possible. i am not -- i don't know if that works and this era as well. we had an electronic bubble of the time. but this administration has not seemed to be as focused on finding hold the avevees of the operation and perhaps penalizing -- finding a whole new avenues of job creation and perhaps penalizing industries that send jobs abroad. >> he is a very smart...
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think about the change from when bill clinton was present it. a 7% of americans were in favor -- of same-sex favor 27% at -- americans were in favor of same- sex marriage. a sea change in a short time. but 31 consecutive the states have voted on it and voted it down. in iowa, 2009, the supreme court unanimously ilegalize same-sex marriage. the very next year, three supreme court justices were ousted. that is the first time that has happened in iowa in 50 years. it is an explosive issue. >> how many people will go to the polling place and say, " obama is for gay marriage, i am against him"? >> it feeds a general perception of obama as dictating, particularly with angry whites, who are swing voters and a lot of these states. >> if you look at the polls, it is young people who are driving this ovehelmgly. young people don't vote as much. a lot of these laws that have passed banning gay marriage have passed in the primary time and not in the general election on, i don't know how it will play out. it is very complicated. >> it does affect older voter
think about the change from when bill clinton was present it. a 7% of americans were in favor -- of same-sex favor 27% at -- americans were in favor of same- sex marriage. a sea change in a short time. but 31 consecutive the states have voted on it and voted it down. in iowa, 2009, the supreme court unanimously ilegalize same-sex marriage. the very next year, three supreme court justices were ousted. that is the first time that has happened in iowa in 50 years. it is an explosive issue....
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when this law was enacted in 1996, by overwhelming majorities, and signed by president clinton, most people did not actually think about what it meant, then it would mean such serious consequences for legally married people because there were no legally married people there. this was a we did not want there to be legally married people law. >> this is the example of the ,isdom of peter finlay done the supreme court follows election returns. there has been a seachange in american opinion opinion and the court reflects the. >> devin? >> this is following the polls. i do not think it is more than that or less than that. i think it is the right thing for that reason. day -- they did it in effect, but i do not think they did it thoroughly. the way they did it was to say the people who file did not have standing and domer was unconstitutional because they recognize the states rights. >> charles? >> there appears to be ambiguity as to whether it is essentially state rights or would you would allow each state to decide for itself, or there is another rationality mixed in where there is const
when this law was enacted in 1996, by overwhelming majorities, and signed by president clinton, most people did not actually think about what it meant, then it would mean such serious consequences for legally married people because there were no legally married people there. this was a we did not want there to be legally married people law. >> this is the example of the ,isdom of peter finlay done the supreme court follows election returns. there has been a seachange in american opinion...
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. >> i have news for you -- the current democratic president is called obama, not clinton. >> but you are asking him to undo in three years what bush did for eight years. >> when the president goes on television, as he did on monday of last week, to redress our crisis, and starch with -- starts with "george bush," your eyes will. he has been in office for three years. take responsibility. be a grown up here you have run america on growth and change for three years, and what did you get? a growth rate of under 3%. >> did the bush tax cuts yield anything? >> [unintelligible] >> republicans are still fighting to keep the bush tax cuts. >> the 1984 campaign of ronald reagan in his reelection. in every of the statement, he was running against the kaiser mondale policies. he did not hesitate to run a rerun. the campaign of 1980. you know, the idea that nobody should mention -- george bush has been the most circumspect for president in our history. he has taken away any target that the democrats might have, much to their regret and chagrin, but i think reality is that this was not the first
. >> i have news for you -- the current democratic president is called obama, not clinton. >> but you are asking him to undo in three years what bush did for eight years. >> when the president goes on television, as he did on monday of last week, to redress our crisis, and starch with -- starts with "george bush," your eyes will. he has been in office for three years. take responsibility. be a grown up here you have run america on growth and change for three years,...
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laughter] >> 18 years ago after newt gingrich said republicans had taken over congress, president bill clinton famously said, the president is still relevant here. we were reminded of that moment this week at obama's news conference when an abc correspondent asked the president if he still had the juice to get the rest of it agenda through congress. the president paraphrase mark twain in saying that the rumors demise might be- exaggerated, and then added this. >> you seem to suggest somehow these folks over there have no responsibilities and that my job is to somehow get them to behave. that is their job. >> the president thought it was a gunss's job to pass controbill, the senate failed to do so. he is struggling to get something done and immigration. heat fromng republicans on everything from bed gauzy to syria and he cannot shut down guantanamo bay, but the voters still like him. and the unemployment rate, we learned at week's end, dropped to 7.5%, heat from republicans a seven-week low. charles krauthammer is off this week. in his column he says that the president is dead in the water. how
laughter] >> 18 years ago after newt gingrich said republicans had taken over congress, president bill clinton famously said, the president is still relevant here. we were reminded of that moment this week at obama's news conference when an abc correspondent asked the president if he still had the juice to get the rest of it agenda through congress. the president paraphrase mark twain in saying that the rumors demise might be- exaggerated, and then added this. >> you seem to suggest...
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. >> secretary of state hillary clinton. the administration is calling on assad to step down, germany, france, the u.k. as well. what impact will the steps have? >> we are seeing a carefully calibrated international effort against assad. you not only had europeans and the u.s. making demands, but also, the saudis, an equally important, the turks. turkey has raised serious reservations about assad and his leadership. it seems very clear that it will side with the u.s. and west as far as getting rid of him at. this is the kind of pressure he is getting now. >> i heard david ignatius in "the washington post" say that the syrian army is stretched to the breaking point. >> i would assume -- i don't now -- but i would assume that there is a deal of discussion in some quarters in the syrian army about ditching this guy and putting up one of their own. this is the way things happened in the middle east ally. -- a lot. as a country, that would be the way to survive this and make some sort of deal with some opposition faction or not.
. >> secretary of state hillary clinton. the administration is calling on assad to step down, germany, france, the u.k. as well. what impact will the steps have? >> we are seeing a carefully calibrated international effort against assad. you not only had europeans and the u.s. making demands, but also, the saudis, an equally important, the turks. turkey has raised serious reservations about assad and his leadership. it seems very clear that it will side with the u.s. and west as far...